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...have been laid off. The British Steel Corp., whose cutbacks will send the most ripples through other industries, has laid off nearly half its 235,000-man work force. The company claims that for every week that the three-day week lasts it will take a full month to regain full operational production...
Sirica worked three nights a week at $100 per month as a boxing coach at the K. of C. while studying law, got his degree in 1926, and then joined his family in Miami. There he became the top sparring partner of Jack Britton, who was working to regain the world welterweight championship. Fighting at 148 lbs., Sirica won a ten-round semifinal match in Miami, leading a local newspaper to head line him as a "Great Little Mitt Artist." Sirica fought a few other local "smoker" matches but quit boxing after his mother "raised all kinds of hell with...
...year for Richard Nixon. He had launched Operation Candor in the final few months to try to regain credibility by revealing information about himself and his activities. There were the inconclusive chats with groups of Congressmen about his role in Watergate, the televised press conference at Disney World with managing editors, and the release of information about his income tax returns. But the operation was too little, too late; each move only seemed to raise more questions. Finally, the President decided to cut back on Candor...
...goes back thousands of years. Settled in the Western Pyrenees since Paleolithic times, the round-faced, stocky Basques are probably Europe's first known people. In earlier periods they resisted the Romans, the Visigoths, the Moors and the Franks under Charlemagne. Similarly, the E.T.A. is now struggling to regain for the Basques their ancient, almost tribal traditions of self-government...
...Crimson regrouped, swapped baskets and played five minutes of even basketball. Sanders' squad even threatened to regain lost ground when UMass forward Greg Duarte picked up a technical foul with the score 53-46 with 6:45 left...